Mechanism of protein folding

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 288-298

  Nolting, Bengt ^a   Andert, Karl ^b  

^a Prussian Priv Inst Technol Berlin   (Germany)

^b Inst Biol Med Res and Technol   (Germany)

Author keywords

value analysis; Framework model; Hydrophobic collapse; Nucleation condensation mechanism; Nucleation growth; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

M PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASES; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0034669844     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0134(20001115)41:3<288::AID-PROT20>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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